Healing is what happens when Pastoral Practitioners minister, enabling people to receive restoration to health of body and mind through God's great love and mercy. This restoration of health is part of what is meant by the "abundant life" which the Lord promised.

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

It's taken a while, but mainstream research is finally starting to catch on to the health benefits of coconut oil -- even if they still can't quite put two and two together, as usual.

But that's OK -- I'm ready to do that for them.

I was all set to celebrate when I read the latest study on mice in the journal Diabetes, which found that coconut oil can protect against insulin resistance without leading to fat accumulation in the body.

The studies are starting to add up, and they all point in the same direction: Cell phones emit harmful radiation that can cause cancer and infertility. And we still have no idea what these things will do to all the kids now growing up with one practically implanted in their ears.

Imagine this nightmare: your skin covered with sores that mysteriously sprout
strange red, black, and blue fibers threads. This is accompanied by the
unnerving sensation that your body is awash in ever-crawling insects. Now the
bad news: you don't have to imagine it. It's real. It's a disease called
Morgellons, and incidences of it are growing so rapidly that the Centers for
Disease Control has commissioned a study to try and find out what it is and
where it's coming from.

As I'm sure you'll recall, I wrote to you just 10 days ago about the new SARS pandemic - specifically, how to keep this fast-moving menace at an arm's length. Since then, the number of worldwide cases has skyrocketed to an estimated
5300, and by the time you read this, that figure could easily have doubled...

In much of the popular culture -- including the media and mainstream doctors' offices -- ordinary, garden-variety aspirin has been elevated to the status of "miracle drug" for the prevention of heart attacks. This is nothing new. And according to these "experts," aspirin fights heart attacks by making the platelets (clotting agents) in your blood less likely to bind together in clumps and clog up your arteries...

Last week in the Daily Dose, I tried to reveal to you the alarming extent of today's depression epidemic -- and the even more alarming one-sidedness of the mainstream's treatment of it with prescription antidepressants...

I've written before about children and drugs -- how seemingly every kid nowadays with even the mildest case of "ants in the pants" is immediately force-fed a mega-dose of good old vitamin R (Ritalin, of course)...

The only thing that should be "fortified" nowadays is your
bomb shelter...

We've all know about "fortified" foods -- and the claims in
ads for white bread and sugar-laden breakfast cereals that
claim they're actually good for you -- because they've
been "fortified" with vitamins and iron...

By now, you've probably heard about homocysteine. I've been writing about it for nigh on 20 years, and unless you're new to alternative medicine, you've probably heard a bit about how it relates to heart disease...

As you probably know, I've been writing about the ludicrous fads and factions of the so-called "health food" movement for years now - and I've called it just about every name in the book... All except the right one, that is.